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softened into Owen e.g., the rivers Owen- more and Owenbeg, the Great and Little Avons. HERBERT MAXWELL.

PROF SKEAT, at the second reference, con- demns the attitude of those who assume to interpret the names of natural objects by what they happen to know about Celtic. In connexion with his remarks, I beg leave to quote three sentences from Prof. George Dottin's ' Manuel pour servir a 1'^tude de TAntiquite Celtique,' 1906, pp. 86-7 :

" Si 1'on essaie de determiner le sens de ces noms propres, on ne peut guere se flatter d'aboutir a autre chose qu'a d'ingenieuses hypotheses. La coincidence entre un Element d'un nom propre vieux-celtique et un mot conserv6 dans les langues celtiques peut etre purement fortuite. . . . II est done probable que, quelque precision phonetique que I 'on mette a ces etymologies, un grand nombre d'entre elles sont fausses."

ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

1 LlLLIBULLERO ' (11 S. V. 28, 111, 194). A

Scotch ballad, modelled after ' Lillibullero,' alike both in air and metre, and in the same vein, levelled against the Young Pretender, is given in ' A Collection of Loyal Songs for the Use of the Revolution Club,' third edition, printed in Edinburgh, 1752, a few years after the second Jacobite rising, by Hamilton, Balfour & Neill. It contains six verses, and commences :

O Brother Sandie, hear ye the news ?

Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la. An army 's just coming without any shoes,

Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la. To arms, to arms, brave boys, to arms, A true British cause for your courage doth call, Court, Country, and City, against a banditti,

Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la.

The last three verses say of the Young Pretender :

If this shall surprise you, there's news stranger yet :

Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la.

He brings Highland money to pay British debt, Lilli Bullero, Bulien a la.

To arms, to arms, &c. You must take it in coin which the country affords,

Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la. Instead of broad pieces, he pays with broad

swords,

Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la. To arms, to arms, &c. And sure this is paying you in the best ore,

Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la,

For who once is thus paid will never want more, Lilli Bullero, Bullen a la. To arms, to arms, &c.

The collection has reference to the English Revolution of 1688-90, and is eulogistic of the Duke of Cumberland and his army in putting down the rising in Scotland in 1745.

On the Jacobite side came, in 1779 (only twelve copies are said to have been printed), the song-book, ' The True Loyalist, or the Chevalier's Favourite.' A copy accord- ing to a pencil note on my Revolution Club song-book, made by Mr. A. Gandyne, 2, Elm Villas, Richmond Road. Hackney, in 1862 is stated to have been sold at Tite's sale for 10Z. WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR.

Dublin.

TRTJSSEL FAMILY (US. v. 50, 137, 257). Is it quite certain that Sir Wm. Tressel, at the last reference, and Sir Wm. Trussel are the same ? How did the name " Trus- sel " come about ? It does not appear to have been a territorial name, though in co. Stafford there was a place named Tresel. I should be glad to hear something of this family in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, especially of their origin in Norman times. I am particularly interested in them because the Trussels of Cublestone and the Swynnertons of Swynnerton were next-door neighbours temp. Edw. II. ; and while the Trussels had for arms Or, a cross flory gules, the Swynnertons bore Arg., a cross flory sable.

In 17 Edw. II., December, 1323, the hundred of Tirehill, co. Staffs, presented that Roger de Swynnerton had assisted in the flight beyond sea of Wm. Trussel of Notehurst, the King's enemy and rebel. Where was Xotehurst ?

C. SWYNNERTON.

According to Montagu Burrows, ' The- Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire,' pp. 48-74, " Sir William Trussel was the stepson of Oliver de Bordeaux a wise and able man, of Gascon descent, whose ancestor Peter, or Pey, de Bor- deaux was Seneschal of Gascony in the reign of Henry III. Like the De Brocas, he was con- stantly employed in Gascony as well as in Eng- land ;" like them, constantly about the Court, he became a wealthy proprietor of land. On the death of John of London, Constable of Windsor Castle, in 1318, Edward II. conferred his estates in Windsor and the neighbourhood on Oliver and Matilda his wife, ' pur son bon service '. . . . From 1319 to 1325 he was Constable of Windsor Castle and Chief Forester, having possession of the manor of Old Windsor."

Burrows adds at p. 60 that

" perhaps he owed something to Trussel, his stepson, a leading member of the Lancastrian f action .... who was employed both as admiral and ambassador, and whose family served with distinction for more than one generation."

The grants made to Oliver by Edward II.

" had been confirmed and extended to this faithful-

offlcer by Edward III. ....but when he and his

wife died childless leaving no representative

to carry on his name, and his wealth went to